Character Designers work for Animation Studios

Here's an example of a site that presents a great variety of Character Design References, which can be viewed for examples of how to draw them. There's a ton of references at this Character Design website's Visual Library. A Pinterest Site: Character Design Silhouettes (See if you can guess which characters these are, even in silhouette).

Stick-Figure Links, Various Sports + Leisure time Activities

1. Stick figure Olympic sports (Google search results)

2. Character Design References: Silhouettes make the difference.

Model Sheets

1. Looney Tunes Model Sheets

2. Living Lines Library (photos of Model Sheets, of Looney Tunes)

3. The Big Bad Wolf

4. Squirrel Model Sheet, by Tex Avery

5. Wolves & Goats? From U.K. Illustrator, Beth Armstrong.

6. Cartoon Bear samples, and "walk-cycle" from Animator, Brian Lemay.

7. Lions, Tigers and ...?

8. Chris Sanders created character designs for "The Croods," on CartoonBrew.com

9. Francisco Herrera is a Character Designer for many animated features; this link is on a contemporary animation site called, "FloobyNooby."

10. Portal do Ilustrador, is a site similar to the Etherington Brothers Art site. Use this for hundreds of links to examples and ideas for increasing your knowledge of Cartoon Illustration for Comics.

11. One of my students was looking up images of Juniper Lee, whom I'd never heard of, so I looked at it, liked the style, and decided to add it to my list of characters to learn how to draw. For more info click this link on wikipedia.